Facilities
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| Botany students use GPS to map plant populations
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Coe's Environmental Science program features state-of-the-art equipment
for use in the field and in the laboratory. Highlights include:
Laboratory
- Coy Anaerobic Glove Box - for culture of anaerobic microorganisms
- Geographic
Information System laboratory built on ArcMAP
- Jasco Spectrofluorimeter - for
analysis of polyaromatic hydrocarbons and fluorescent brighteners
- Dionex Summit
HPLC with diode array detector, fluorescence detector, and autosampler -
for analysis of polar organic molecules, such as herbicides
- Dionex ICS1000 ion
chromatograph with autosampler and Dionex DX-80 Ion Chromatograph - for
analysis of nitrate, chloride, and sulfate in surface waters
- SRI Model 8610
gas chromatograph with FID, PID, and DELDC detectors, purge and trap, and
thermal desorber – analysis of organics
- Perkin Elmer UV/visible spectrophotometers
(3 Lambda 35s and 8 Lambda EZ150s) - for
colorimetric analysis of nutrients
- Perkin Elmer PE1100 Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer – for
analysis of metals
- Hewlett Packard GCD GC-MS - for analysis of organics,
such as pesticides or solvents
Field
- YSI Model 556 Multiprobe System - simultaneous measurement of dissolved
oxygen, pH, conductivity, and ORP
- YSI Model 55 DO meters (3)
- YSI Model 52 DO meter with 50 ft. probe
- Accumet AP61 pH meters (3)
- Accumet AP25 pH/Ion/FET meters (2)
- Hach 2100P Turbidimeter (3)
- Geotech Flow Meters (2)
- Turner AquaFluor Fluorometers for chlorophyll analysis
(2)
- Hach pocket colorimeter for immunoassay analysis of atrazine
- Geographic
Positioning System (GPS) units
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